Attention modulates initial stages of visual word processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1727-1736

  Ruz, María ^a,b   Nobre, Anna C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Experimental Psychology ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50649119243     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2008.20119     Document Type: Article

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